Pushing. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 12:22:28PM +0200, Michael Schutte wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 01:19:58PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Package: libdb-ruby1.8 > > Version: 0.6.5-1 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Causes unclean upgrades > > > > I have dhelp installed on a Lenny system, which depends on > > libdb4.2-ruby1.8. After upgrading the system at some point I was left > > with libdb4.2-ruby1.8 still installed as "obsolete package". > > > > At first I thought this was some temporary inconsistency in testing, but > > I now find that libdb4.2-ruby1.8 has been renamed to libdb-ruby1.8, > > which provides the old package. > > > > However, it seems that no upgrade path is provided to ensure that users > > that already had the old package installed will get the new package. > > Only if libdb-ruby1.8 is selected manually will the old package get > > replaced. > > The obvious fix (dummy transitional packages) is in our SVN; it’a bit > ugly, but seems to work. It certainly deserves a second pair of eyes, I > might easily have missed something.
Could someone please check and upload? -- Michael Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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